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Thinking about causes : from Greek philosophy to modern physics
- Title
- Thinking about causes : from Greek philosophy to modern physics / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 318 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
- Subject
- Causation > History > Congresses
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The concept of causality in Greek thought / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Moral causes : the role of physical explanation in ancient ethics / Brad Inwood -- Ancient Stoicism, "robust epistemology," and moral philosophy / Emidio Spinelli -- Powerless causes : the case of sacramental causality / Marilyn McCord Adams -- From Scholasticism to modern physics and back : the transformation of traditional causal concepts in Descartes and Occasionalism / Robert Schnepf -- Kant on transcendental laws / Eric Watkins -- Freedom from necessity : the influence of J.S. Mill's politics on his concept of causation / Laura J. Snyder -- Mill on causation and the historical turn in philosophy of science : some historical and methodological remarks / Paolo Parrini -- Sprachkritik and the problem of historical understanding : Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber / Henry Krips -- Plurality in causality / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti -- How to be a causal pluralist / Christopher Hitchcock -- Do the causal principles of modern physics contradict causal anti-fundamentalism? / John D. Norton -- Epiphenomenalism : the dos and the don'ts / Larry Shapiro and Elliott Sober -- On selection of, for, with, and against / Peter McLaughlin -- Causality in economics / Sir Clive W. J. Granger -- The core of free will / Wolfgang Spohn.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-4901
- ISBN
- 9780822943099 (alk. paper)
- 0822943093 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007006104
- OCLC
- 84838290
- Title
- Thinking about causes : from Greek philosophy to modern physics / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
- Series
- Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Machamer, Peter K.Wolters, Gereon.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-4901